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On the streets of Istanbul

Posted on 12 August 202012 August 2020 by ilagardien

Below is set of pictures I took in Istanbul in 2012.

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Financial Times

The young Talibs: ‘no compromise with the enemy of our martyrs’
Hilton bets on the return of business travel
FDA panel votes against Pfizer’s Covid-19 booster jab application
France recalls envoys from US and Australia in protest at submarine deal
France urges Brussels to increase pressure on UK over fishing rights

Branko Milanovic Personal Blog

Can globalization be “improved”?
In an excellent just-published book “Six faces of globalization” Anthea Roberts and Nicolas Lamp, produce six plausible narratives of globalization and what, according to each, went wrong or right with globalization. Their approach is to take a given narrative, present all its points as its defenders would, with rather minimal outside (i.e. their own) interventions, […]
Nobody’s war
Stephen Platt, Professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, has in “Imperial Twilight” written an excellent book on the origins of the first Opium War, and perhaps even more importantly, at this time of US-China tensions, he has shown how wars may occur not just because the two sides do not agree, not […]
Trotsky after Kolakowski
As people who follow my feed know, I have recently reread the three volumes of Leszek Kolakowski’s magisterial Main Currents of Marxism. I read them first in the mid-1980s (the date when I bought them, inscribed on my copy, is June 1982), and rereading them almost forty years later. It is even more impressive now—because […]
The long NEP, China and Xi
Many journalists, commentators and political scientists see the recent policy changes in China as “the return to communism”. They in particular point out to a number of measures whose objective was to limit lending by internet companies, to ban for-profit tutoring, and to put a squeeze on companies producing internet games (the latter were, tellingly […]
On Eurocentrism in economics
Sebastian Conrad’s book “What is global history?” is in many ways important for economists and economic historians. This is not only because Conrad illustrates the way in which global studies differ from other ways to look at the world (modernization theory, world-systems theory, post-colonial studies), but also because he takes many examples from economics. The […]

BBC World News

Afghanistan: The escape of the whirling dancer
Pele: Brazil football legend 'recovering well' says daughter
Aukus: France recalls envoys amid security pact row
Afghanistan: US admits Kabul drone strike killed civilians
Police warn of threats ahead of right-wing rally at US Capitol

Channelnews Asia

Time for a kitchen upgrade? Check out these nifty new appliances
A staycation on Sentosa – with a side of Singapore colonial history
Piers Morgan to launch new TV show on Rupert Murdoch-owned network
Tom Cruise gets sneak preview from SpaceX's first private crew
How does a luxury hotel turn itself into a stay-home notice facility? Behind the scenes at the Conrad Centennial

Singapore Straits Times

While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 18
France recalls ambassadors from US, Australia over submarines row
US FDA advisers recommend Covid-19 boosters for 65 and older after rejecting broad approval
US says Kabul drone strike killed 10 civilians, including children
Apple removed Russia opposition app after arrest threats: Source
SpaceX tourists speak to Hollywood star Tom Cruise from orbit
'Threats of violence' at US Capitol pro-Trump rally, police warn
Moderna Covid-19 vaccine edges Pfizer in new US research
IMF board reviewing ethics report on managing director Kristalina Georgieva's actions at World Bank
US to buy millions of Pfizer vaccine doses to donate to world: Washington Post

Business Times

Over 15% of unvaccinated seniors above 80 land in ICU, compared with 1.8% of vaccinated ones
WHILE Singapore has seen a near-five fold increase in daily Covid-19 cases compared with a fortnight ago, the number of serious cases remains low for now, with unvaccinated seniors most at risk of developing severe illness, according to data from the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Friday.
Passengers with 21-day travel history to Indonesia can transit through Singapore: MOH
ALL passengers with a 21-day travel history to Indonesia will be allowed to transit through Singapore from Sept 22 at 2359 hours, the Health Ministry (MOH) said on Friday.
More Covid-19 patients to recover at home as the default from Sep 18; 100 vending machines dispensing ART kits rolled out
RECOVERING at home will be the default care management model for a wider group of infected Covid-19 patients from Saturday.
Watchers rosy on Singapore trade outlook despite risk from China's slowdown
SINGAPORE export growth cooled below expectations in August, as a decline in non-monetary gold shipments weighed on the trade sector.
Singapore was Sichuan's largest foreign investor in H1 2021: ESG
SINGAPORE was Sichuan's largest foreign investor in the first half of 2021, injecting some US$8 billion across 685 projects.

The Economist

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Malay Mail

Discrimination in schools: Is there a way forward or is it too deep-rooted?
Sabah allows 300 congregants for Friday prayers at main mosques, says state minister
Covid-19 negative test results not needed to enter Bintulu from tomorrow, says disaster management committee

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